Separating The Character From The Actor

[OtherGene]

I'm not a child and I understand fully that the people on the magic box in my living room are just actors pretending and reading out words given to them BUT I really don't like watching actors from Star Trek biting the dust in other shows.

Alex Siddig is currently featuring in the BBCs Peaky Blinders as a character who's motives aren't entirely clear and being as Cillian Murphys boys have a very direct way of dealing with people they don't get on with I fear for Julians fate. I've only just got over when he died in Waking The Dead.

Does anybody else view our beloved Star Trek cast in different productions slightly differently than other actors?

 

[Tosk]

I remember my friends and I cheering (mostly in jest) when Wesley Crusher caught bullets in Toy Soldiers.

 

[Hadrian]

I've only just got over when he died in Waking The Dead.

What?! Doctor Bashir died?!

Seriously.I have no problems separating actors from characters. (Well,except for Arnold. And Robert Patrick.)

 

[B.J.]

I remember my friends and I cheering (mostly in jest) when Wesley Crusher caught bullets in Toy Soldiers.

You should see the first 5 minutes of Sharknado 2! Of course, this role is a case of him being in on the joke.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I can't think of any Siddig roles where he didn't die besides Bashir. Syriana too.

Doesn't bother me that much. If the actor is performing well I don't see them as the Trek character, it's only the weaker actors with no range or cases of obvious typecasting where I even make the associaton.

 

[OtherGene]

Nana Visitor in BSG nailed her death scene, I must say, but I actually didn't recognise her at the time.

 

[Tracy Trek]

I saw Siddig in the BBC program Atlantis where he played a king who was being slowly poisoned by his queen. She had plans to get rid of her stepdaughter (the heir to the throne) as well.

 

[JRoss]

Didn't Sid survive in Primeval?

 

[Griffeytrek]

I think Sid died in 24 too, didn't he? he seems to die almost as much as Sean Bean.

 

[Trekkin]

I'm not a child and I understand fully that the people on the magic box in my living room are just actors pretending and reading out words given to them BUT I really don't like watching actors from Star Trek biting the dust in other shows.

Alex Siddig is currently featuring in the BBCs Peaky Blinders as a character who's motives aren't entirely clear and being as Cillian Murphys boys have a very direct way of dealing with people they don't get on with I fear for Julians fate. I've only just got over when he died in Waking The Dead.

Does anybody else view our beloved Star Trek cast in different productions slightly differently than other actors?

Dear god man, don't watch

Spoiler: Spoiler

Game of Thrones and Da Vincis Demons

Or Atlantis (died between seasons)

Or Primeval.

Or Reign of Fire

Or Clash/Wrath of the Titans

...

...

Yep, definitely time for Sean Bean to pass on his 'World's Best at Dying' award.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Funny, I've always enjoyed seeing Trek actors playing very different roles than the ones they played on the final frontier.

 

[OtherGene]

I watched Colm Meaney in Alpha Papa again last night, a thoroughly joyous experience, but I kept having DS9 flashbacks!

Maybe I need help...

 

[The Old Mixer]

Watch Hell on Wheels...you'll forget Colm Meaney ever was Chief O'Brien.

 

[Terok Nor]

I don't think I've ever seen Siddig in anything besides DS9 where he didn't die

I've never had a problem separating the actors from the characters. It's all make believe and I can buy into them playing different roles. Look at Brent Spiner. In Star Trek alone he's played dozens of characters.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ As has Vaughn Armstrong. Although they're all immediately recognizable. As it should be.

 

[Paradise City]

I remember my friends and I cheering (mostly in jest) when Wesley Crusher caught bullets in Toy Soldiers.

I like "mostly".

Of course, I only use their real names and refuse to call them anything else. I mean "Patrick Stewart" is a pretty weak pseudonym. Who on earth does Captain Picard think he's fooling??!!

 

[Capn Nick]

Colm Meaney and Patrick Stewart I forget immediately about their Star Trek characters when I watch something else because they are just so great (and both in many good things).

I have a hard time ever thinking of Leonard Nimoy as not being Spock though and when Robert Picardo (who is a talented actor) was on Stargate I think I was more on his side than I would have been if I hadn't seen Voyager

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Sometimes I do this with Trek characters, though at present I find myself doing it a lot with GoT actors--made X-Men Apocalypse on Saturday an interesting viewing (Sansa, so traumatised by her experiences, withdraws into her mind where she becomes a bad-ass telepath)

 

[USS Triumphant]

I think I know what the OP is referring to. I seem to recall seeing an episode of TNG not long ago where they used some transporter effect to separate Will Riker and Jonathan Frakes. They kept calling Frakes "Thomas" for some reason, but it was still pretty obvious what was going on.